Subject: NA Digest, V. 15, # 19 NA Digest Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Volume 15 : Issue 19 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: Axel Ruhe Peter Kritzer Wins Information-based Complexity Prize Nominations, Achievement in Information-Based Complexity News for the Book, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra Space & Time Modeling Day Germany, Germany, Jun 2015 Sparse Days in St Girons III, France, Jun 2015 Integrated models for computational medicine, Italy, Jul 2015 SAMSI Ideas Lab on Biomed, USA, Jul 2015 BIT Circus 2015, Sweden, Aug 2015 New Talent Invited Speaker, SciCADE, Germany, Sep 2015 Summer School on Applied Analysis, Germany, Sep 2015 SimRace 2015, France, Dec 2015 ALGORITMY 2016, Slovakia, Mar 2016 Postdoc Position, Computational Science, PSI Switzerland Postdoc Postion, Computational Electromagnetics, Sandia National Labs PhD Position, Math Ed or Applied/Comp Math, Univ of Bergen Subscribe, unsubscribe, change address, or for na-digest archives: http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/faq.html Submissions for NA Digest: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/na-digest/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Lars Eldén [log in to unmask] Date: May 08, 2015 Subject: Axel Ruhe Axel Ruhe passed away April 4 while skiing in the Swedish mountains. Axel has made many profound contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing over the years. Since 2003 he was Editor-in-Chief of the journal "BIT - Numerical Mathematics". Axel was lively and always full of energy. It is very sad and a great loss that Axel is not with us anymore. He will be long remembered. Bo Kågström and Lars Eldén Lars Eldén has taken over as editor-in-chief for BIT ------------------------------------------------------- From: Joseph Traub [log in to unmask] Date: May 05, 2015 Subject: Peter Kritzer Wins Information-based Complexity Prize The recipient of the 2015 IBC Prize is Peter Kritzer, Department of Financial Mathematics, University of Linz, Austria. The prize consists of $3000 and a plaque, to be presented at the Seminar on Algorithms and Complexity for Continuous Problems, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, September 2015. This annual prize is given for outstanding contributions to information- based complexity. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Joseph Traub [log in to unmask] Date: May 05, 2015 Subject: Nominations, Achievement in Information-Based Complexity This annual prize is for outstanding achievement in information-based complexity. It consists of $3000 and a plaque which will be awarded on a suitable occasion. The members of the prize committee would appreciate nominations for the prize. However, a person does not have to be nominated to win the award. Nominations may be sent to Joseph F. Traub at [log in to unmask] The deadline for the nominations is March 31, 2016. The award can be based on work done in a single year, in a number of years, or over a lifetime. The work can be published in any journal, in a number of journals, or as monographs. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gilbert Strang [log in to unmask] Date: May 09, 2015 Subject: News for the Book, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra This book combines the two key courses in undergraduate mathematics. The Solution Manual has just been added to the book's website http://math.mit.edu/dela plus a sample section from each chapter. This textbook was reviewed by Robert O'Malley in the December 2014 SIAM Review. A series of 52 video lectures is coming on OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu and on MathWorks.com and on YouTube -- to give readers (including all students) an active presentation of each key idea in understanding and solving ODEs. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dr. Anja Milde [log in to unmask] Date: May 05, 2015 Subject: Space & Time Modeling Day Germany, Germany, Jun 2015 June 11, 2015 - Print Media Academy - Heidelberg, Germany The 9th Modeling Day on “Space & Time” takes place on June 11, 2015, at the Print Media Academy in Heidelberg. The half-day event starts at 2PM and offers a platform for both practitioners and scientists to discuss innovations, determine similarities and differences of applied modeling approaches, as well as maintain mutual exchange of experiences. This Modeling Day aims at contributing to communication between industry and university within the complex issue “Space & Time”. The Modeling Day will solely be held in German. Participation is free of charge. This event is organized by the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp), in cooperation with BASF SE, InnovationLab GmbH, and IHK Rhein-Neckar. For further information, please visit the event’s website at http://www.modellierungstag.de . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Iain Duff [log in to unmask] Date: May 08, 2015 Subject: Sparse Days in St Girons III, France, Jun 2015 The deadline for registrations for the St Girons conference is 24th May. This conference will be held in St Girons near Toulouse from 29 June to 2 July 2015. Previous conferences were held in 1994 and 2003 and a similar pattern will be followed for this meeting. You are invited to attend or to give a talk on any area relevant to the title of the conference. There will also be a poster session. Registration is available from the website http://cimi-semester-hpc.fr/ by clicking on the Registration flag for the Conference. On this web site, you can find the current (very) tentative programme, and a partial list of confirmed participants. There is still space on the programme for further talks that should ordinarily be for a 30 minute time slot. A public lecture by Jack Dongarra and Satoshi Matsuoka in Toulouse on 2nd July is also open for registration via the same web address. Registration for this event is free but mandatory. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Christian Vergara [log in to unmask] Date: May 08, 2015 Subject: Integrated models for computational medicine, Italy, Jul 2015 During the period July 20-31, 2015 the graduate course in "Integrated models for computational medicine" will be held in Cortona at Palazzone of the Scuola Normale Superiore, under the sponsorship of the Consorzio per l’Alta Formazione in Matematica (CIAFM), the Italian Ministery of University and Research (MUR) and Istituto di Alta Matematica (INdAM). The course will be divided into two modules: i) Geometrical multiscale models of the cardiovascular system; Lecturers: L. Formaggia, C. Vergara (MOX, Politecnico di MIlano); ii) Reduced basis, optimal control and application to cardiovascular modeling; Lecturer: A. Quarteroni, A. Manzoni (CMCS, EPF de Lausanne) For further details, see the website http://germanio.math.unifi.it/courses-cortona/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ilse Ipsen [log in to unmask] Date: May 07, 2015 Subject: SAMSI Ideas Lab on Biomed, USA, Jul 2015 The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) is organizing an Ideas Lab on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Data Science Challenges, July 20-24, 2015, jointly sponsored by NSF and NIH. It will be an intensive five-day residential workshop aimed at the development of multidisciplinary collaborative research proposals motivated by large-data problems in precision medicine, and will lead to the opportunity to submit proposals for small, 1-year funding awards to further build the collaborations. Applications to attend the workshop are due by May 25, 2015. Further details may be found at www.samsi.info/ideas-lab . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bo Kagstrom [log in to unmask] Date: May 06, 2015 Subject: BIT Circus 2015, Sweden, Aug 2015 Inspired by the former BIT Chief Editor Axel Ruhe*, we announce the BIT Circus 2015, focusing on Numerical Mathematics and Computational Sciences, to be held August 26-27, 2015 at Umea University, Sweden. The circus motto is "everybody is welcome, nobody is invited", and the main idea is that PhD students, Post-docs, and young researchers are presenting their on-going work and exchanging ideas in their research. Sadly, Axel Ruhe passed away suddenly on April 4, 2015. Axel encouraged the planning of the next BIT Circus to be held during this summer. True to his spirit and in memory of Axel, the BIT Board supported that the next event will take place at Umea University where Axel started his academic career as Professor. For more information, see BIT Circus 2015 web page, with the registration form (dead-line June 12): https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/events/workshops/BITcircus2015 We wish you most welcome, The BIT Board and the Local Organizers ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ernst Hairer [log in to unmask] Date: May 08, 2015 Subject: New Talent Invited Speaker, SciCADE, Germany, Sep 2015 SciCADE 2015, September 14-18, 2015, Potsdam, Germany Call for papers. We invite applicants to submit their papers to be considered for the New Talent Award. The topic of the paper has to be in a field that is covered by the SciCADE conference. The author of the best paper will be asked to give an invited lecture at SciCADE 2015. All local expenses will be covered for this speaker, and the registration fee will be waived as well. The criteria for eligibility are 1. the candidate must be under 35 years old as of 1 January 2015; and 2. the candidate must not have completed their PhD more than 4 years ago (that is, before 1 January 2011). Submission guidelines can be found at http://scicade2015.math.uni-potsdam.de/scicade2015/newtalentaward.html Deadline for New Talent submission is 31 May 2015. The paper should be sent to Ernst Hairer ([log in to unmask]). For SciCADE 2015 Ernst Hairer ------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Potts [log in to unmask] Date: May 05, 2015 Subject: Summer School on Applied Analysis, Germany, Sep 2015 Summer School on Applied Analysis September 21-25, 2015, Chemnitz, Germany The summer school is devoted to applied analysis. The courses, focusing on different aspects of applied analysis, will take place Monday-Friday during the entire week. It is meant for training of graduate students, Ph.D. students and young post-doc researchers. The registration is free, but we may limit the number of participants if necessary. There will be five general lectures given by the following speakers. - Oliver Ernst (Technsiche Universität Chemnitz) Mathematical methods of uncertainty quantification - Stefan Kunis (Universität Osnabrück) Low ranks in computational Fourier analysis - Volker Mehrmann (Technsiche Universität Berlin) Analysis and numerical solution of eigenvalue problems - Frank-Olme Speck (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Operator factorization and boundary value problems - Jan Vybiral (Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic) Low-rank matrix recovery Further information and online registration is available on the website: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~potts/cms/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: FULGONI Patricia [log in to unmask] Date: May 11, 2015 Subject: SimRace 2015, France, Dec 2015 IFP Energies nouvelles organize the conference SimRace : Numerical methods and high performance computing for industrial fluid flows in Rueil-Malmaison from 8 to 10 december 2015. All information on http://www.rs-simrace.com/ Patricia Fulgoni Tél. : 01 47 52 67 21 – [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Karol Mikula [log in to unmask] Date: May 06, 2015 Subject: ALGORITMY 2016, Slovakia, Mar 2016 20th ALGORITMY conference will be held in the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia on March 13-18, 2016. The conference is devoted to computational methods, their analysis, algorithmic realization and application to real-world problems arising from natural sciences, engineering, technology, medicine and finance. Invited talks include: - Martin Gander - Iterative methods in linear algebra - Patrick Joly - Grand piano modelling and simulation - Cornelis W. Oosterlee - Different applications of Fourier cosine expansions and wavelets in Computational Finance - Stanley Osher - What sparsity and L1 optimization can do for you - Dan Raviv - Stretchable isometric structures: Theory, Algorithms and Applications - Olivier Saut - Data assimilation in tumor growth modelling: towards calibrated models using imaging devices - Chi-Wang Shu - Bound-preserving high order schemes for convection-dominated problems - Karsten Urban - Reduced basis methods and industrial applications - chances and challenges - Martin Vohralik - Estimating a posteriori the discretization and algebraic errors: an overview Registration and paper submission deadline - October 31, 2015 Detailed information: http://www.math.sk/alg2016 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Adelmann Andreas [log in to unmask] Date: May 05, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Position, Computational Science, PSI Switzerland Your Profile: You hold a PhD degree with excellent grades in applied mathematics, computational science or physics. Furthermore, you have profound knowledge of: Particle accelerator physics or classical mechanics, AMR (BoxLib is an advantage), PIC methods, C++, MPI (Trilinos & Boost is an advantage) and Uncertainty quantification. Your task: - Continuously development of a multi scale Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR), Particle in Cell (PIC) based numerical simulation model - Uncertainty quantification of the physics and solver related parameters - Applying AMR and UQ to gain a detailed understanding of the neighbouring bunch effects with respect to halo formation in the PSI ring cyclotron and prediction for the next generation high power cyclotrons with respect to halo formation, the most limiting factor of megawatt class particle accelerators For more information please visit http://www.psi.ch/pa/offenestellen/1042 or send email to [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: John N. Shadid [log in to unmask] Date: May 08, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Postion, Computational Electromagnetics, Sandia National Labs SNL Post-doctoral Research Position: Computational and Applied Mathematics Research in Electromagnetics and Magnetohydrodynamics modeling An opening is available for a post-doctoral researcher in computational and applied mathematics research in electromagnetics and magnetohydrodynamics modeling in the Computational Mathematics Department at Sandia National Laboratories. John N. Shadid & Pavel B. Bochev Computational Mathematics Department Center for Computing Research Sandia National Laboratories Job Title: Postdoctoral Appointee - Computational Electromagnetics Location: Albuquerque Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation. We are a world-class team of scientists, engineers, technologists, post docs, and visiting researchers all focused on cutting-edge technology, ranging from homeland defense, global security, biotechnology, and environmental preservation to energy and combustion research, computer security, and nuclear defense. To learn more, http://www.sandia.gov. Use the following link and follow the instructions to upload a resume, and complete the submission process to indicate your interest in this position. https://hrss.sandia.gov/psp/pspr1/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRPM.H RS_JOB_OPENING.GBL?Action=U&HRS_JOB_OPENING_ID=649728 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Antonella Zanna [log in to unmask] Date: May 05, 2015 Subject: PhD Position, Math Ed or Applied/Comp Math, Univ of Bergen At the Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, a position as research fellow (PhD candidate) in either mathematics education or applied and computational mathematics is available. The position as research fellow is intended to give promising candidates the opportunity to pursue advanced research leading to a doctoral degree within mathematics education or applied and computational mathematics. PhD candidates who speak Norwegian or another Scandinavian language will be employed for 4 years with 25 % of the working hours being duty work in the form of research, teaching and dissemination of results. PhD candidates who do not speak Norwegian or another Scandinavian language will normally be employed for 3 years. Strategic considerations may be taken in the final ranking of candidates and in the prioritization between the subject areas mathematics education and applied and computational mathematics. Closing date for applications: 2 June 2015 Detailed information about the position can be obtained by contacting associate professor Mette Andresen, e-mail [log in to unmask] (didactics of mathematics) or professor Antonella Zanna, epost [log in to unmask] (applied and computational mathematics). The full announcement for the position can be found at: http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/112902/research-fellow-phd- candidate-in-mathematics-education-or-applied-and-computational- mathematics ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************